Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the launch of a new business unit for the EEMEA region – a local office situated in Kiev, Ukraine. The office will be the management centre for the Company’s operations in Eastern Europe.

The new local office will be headed by Andrey Slobodyanik, who has been appointed Kaspersky Lab’s Managing Director for Eastern Europe. Andrey was previously Managing Director of Kaspersky Lab in the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

"The structural reorganization was necessary in order to optimize business operations in the Eastern European region,” said Andrey Slobodyanik, Managing Director of Kaspersky Lab in Eastern Europe. “By restructuring the EEMEA region we significantly simplify our internal processes and raise Kaspersky Lab’s business efficiency. This provides us with a unique opportunity to transfer the Company’s positive experience to all of the countries within the region.”

The new local office for Eastern Europe enhances the Company’s presence in the region, optimizes its business processes, further develops the partner network and promotes the Kaspersky Lab brand. As of 1 March, 2010 the new local office will reinforce the Company’s presence in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia.

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